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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [FOR 0.12 PATCH v3 10/21] default devices: add glob
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [FOR 0.12 PATCH v3 10/21] default devices: add global cmd line option. |
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Tue, 8 Dec 2009 11:39:43 -0500 (EST) |
> > Here is my thinking: if you used -writeconfig, your machine description
> > is (at least in theory) entirely included in the config file including
> > (again in theory) the default devices.
>
> The default devices are *not* included by in the file created by
> -writeconfig.
Yes, that's why I wrote "at least in theory". It doesn't now but that
would be a bug, because it makes -nodefaults another legacy option that
has to be remembered and passed again upon -readconfig.
> Devices created via -readconfig are treated like devices created via
> [device] sections in the config file. So it doesn't matter whenever you
> configure your isa-serial device via command line or config file, in any
> case it will make qemu not create the default serial port.
I was thinking about the case when you don't want at all a particular
default device.
Paolo